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Gustavo Yacamán
Colombian racing driver From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gustavo "El Tigrillo" (English: The Ocelot) Yacamán Aristizabal (born February 25, 1991) is a Colombian racing driver from Santiago de Cali who currently manages the USF Juniors series. Yacamán began his career in open-wheel racing, but switched to sports car endurance racing in 2012. He raced in the US until he joined G-Drive Racing in 2015, where he drove a Ligier in the WEC Championship and finished that season third in the LMP2 class. In 2016 Yacamán switched to a sprint format, driving for BMW Team Teo Martín in the International GT Open series. He finished runner-up for the 2016 Championship.
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Early career
After winning the American Stars of Karting competition in 2005, he moved immediately to the Spanish Formula Three Championship for the 2006 season, a significant jump for a young driver. He finished sixteenth in the championship. He also competed in Master Junior Formula in Europe and finished fourth. The following year Yacamán captured his first win and finished eighth in Spanish Formula Three. In 2008, he captured another win and finished ninth in Spanish F3.
Indy Lights
For 2009, he returned to the U.S. to race in the Firestone Indy Lights Series with Sam Schmidt Motorsports.[1] He finished twelfth in points with a best finish of fourth at the Milwaukee Mile. He returned to the series in 2010 with the rookie team Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing. Yacamán improved to tenth in points and captured his first podium finish with a third place at Toronto. He returned to the series in 2011 for a third season, this time with Team Moore Racing. He captured his first win late in the season at Baltimore and finished fourth in points. Yacamán achieved his first Indy Lights pole position at the 2012 Firestone Freedom 100. He finished the season third in points with two wins (at Detroit and Toronto) and three runner-up finishes.
Sports cars
For 2013, Yacamán moved to sports car racing after having raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona the previous year, driving the No. 6 Ford-Riley Daytona Prototype entry for Michael Shank Racing in the Rolex Sports Car Series Yacamán caused a great deal of controversy during the 2013 race at Detroit's Belle Isle. On the first lap of the race Yacaman was trying to make a move inside of Memo Rojas but ran wide, pushing Rojas' car off-line and into a concrete barrier. The incident caused significant damage to Rojas' car, and also collected Yacamán's teammate John Pew. As a result of the incident Rojas and His teammate Scott Pruett did not accrue any points for the race which put them at a severe disadvantage for the Championship. In the course of the season, Yacamán managed a best finish of second place at Lime Rock, to finish eleventh in the championship.
For 2014, Yacamán has joined the newly unified United SportsCar Championship with OAK Racing; first with a Morgan LMP2-Nissan and then with a Ligier JS P2-Honda, managed to win at Mosport Park, and three podiums, so that ended eighth in the drivers' championship Prototype class.
Yacamán became a junior Lamborghini factory driver in 2017, and will compete at the Blancpain GT Series for Team Lazarus.
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American open–wheel racing results
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Indy Lights
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
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24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results
* Season still in progress.
Complete Global Rallycross Championship results
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GRC Lites
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